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Since listing in mid-2019, Pointsbet (PBH) has provided its investors with much volatility but, mostly, with big sharemarket wins. The stock galloped from its $2 IPO...

2020 to date has been a series of local and global events which have tested process, conviction, and stamina of every small and emerging company investor. It is only...

In our previous Collections piece, our quartet of fixed income managers discussed 10 risks that could wreck markets. To recap their views: While US$18 trillion of...

Given the unimaginable extent of the dividend cuts across the market, equity income investors must explore new ways to generate sufficient income. Here’s how to design...

Blue chip is synonymous with quality and dividends in the mind of the Australian investor, but are the companies considered as the blue chips of today likely to remain...

The recent risk market rally reflects hope for a sharp recovery as economies slowly reopen. However, bond markets are once again diverging from equities and predicting...

A quality investing framework executed sensibly can earn returns in excess of the market. The benefits derived from a quality approach are magnified even further when...

Investors are particularly vulnerable to what I think of as the Big-Endian question. In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift satirised religious schisms by describing a...

Investors in Australian slot machine and mobile games developer, Aristocrat Leisure (ASX:ALL), have enjoyed stellar returns over the past 10 years, with the share...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 market sell-off Roger’s idea of keeping our spirits up was to play the Carpenter’s “We’ve only just begun.” Bear Heaven. Apologies if...

The announcement by Josh Frydenberg that commissions for selling listed investment funds (commonly LICs or LITs) will be banned is being spun as a win for consumers...

The U.S. Fed's unprecedented market interventions was recently on display. If you are trying to work out why there is such a difference between Main Street and Wall...

Quality and ESG (environment, social and governance) are two sides of the same coin. At Crestone, when we rank individual companies, we are looking for high quality...

This week sees the release of Australia’s Q1 GDP data (Wednesday). We have already seen sharp falls for major economies and regions in Q1, with the relative extent of...

The $500 million Macquarie Bank Capital Notes 2 (ASX: MBLPB) hybrid begins trading on Wednesday, and it will be fascinating to see how it performs. This new deal was...

There was just over $706m raised via placement this week. This was across 29 raises, and with only one raise above $100m. Small cap raises have continued to increase...

Many investors view cash as part of the defensive, and somewhat static portion of their portfolios, but in uncertain markets it might also be used as a trading tool...

The existence of Residential Mortgage Obligations (RMO) isn’t new. It was only in 2017 the Reserve Bank of New Zealand started taking steps to develop a private...

There can often be pitfalls in pursuing a 'one or the other' strategy in equities. Hunting income can lead to yield traps. Chasing growth may result in overpaying for...

Investors are hopeful, says Geoff Wilson AO, but that doesn’t fill him with confidence. “‘Hope’ is not a strategy, but that’s where I think we are,” he told investors...